• So many things happened at Capitol Hill Block Party over the weekend! Here are some of them:
On Friday, Matt & Kim—who are seemingly contractually obligated to play all summer festivals—covered 30 seconds of every crowd-pleasing anthem a festival enthusiast would ever want to hear (“Remix to Ignition” remix, anyone?), occasionally covering songs by Matt & Kim. Also on Friday, Spoon’s live performance on the Main Stage was an immaculate reproduction of their records, minus horns, no more and no less. For two people in front of us, this was an overpowering aphrodisiac.
On Sunday, Angel Olsen won the CHBP award for laziest yet most endearing stage banter. “Whose birthday is it today?” is a guaranteed way to get some hungover hipsters cheering the first set on Sunday at two in the afternoon. Much, much later, rumors of a missed flight and possible no-show circulated before A$AP Rocky started his set more than an hour later than scheduled. “I fuck with Seattle,” said A$AP, when he finally took the Main Stage. “He fucks with us!” said an excited twentysomething dancing on a wobbly speaker.

• A source tell us that Duff McKagan (of Duff McKagan’s Loaded and Guns N’ Roses) and pals came and hung out at Slim’s Last Chance on Saturday night. A bit later, the Seafair clowns showed up and occupied another table in the bar. Oh, Seattle.

• Heads up, psychedelic-music fans! The second annual Hypnotikon event will be happening at the Triple Door on November 14–15. Headliners this year are synth-punk legends Suicide’s sonic innovator Martin Rev, and Rain Parade, kings of the ’80s California psych-rock movement known as the Paisley Underground. The lineup is rounded out by a distinctive mix of national and local artists: Bitchin Bajas, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Food Pyramid, Tjutjuna, Residual Echoes, Midday Veil, New Weather, Newaxeyes, Kingdom of the Holy Sun, and Corum. Local video artists Christian Petersen and Aubrey Nehring will provide optical enhancement, and the Musicquarium lounge will host DJs and vendors, in addition to the live acts. (Full disclosure: The Stranger’s Dave Segal helped to curate Hypnotikon.)

• Any unsuspecting soul wandering the woods at night near Black Diamond over the weekend would have heard creepy music floating out of the darkness, seemingly coming from everywhere. If they followed the sound to investigate, they would have started stumbling on eviscerated corpses and hearing chain saws and screaming in the distance. Those of us attending the Great Horror Campout were ready for all of it, but anyone who was unaware might have been seriously traumatized.